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title: As I was about to depart, Cæsar said: “Mossa, Uncle Jupter bin hab e… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: As I was about to depart, Cæsar said: “Mossa, Uncle Jupter bin hab er wision las night. Who acts: I, Cæsar, Mossa, hab er wision. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 14, sentence 87

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As I was about to depart, Cæsar said: “Mossa, Uncle Jupter bin hab er wision las night.

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**Who acts:** I, Cæsar, Mossa, hab er wision · **What happens:** be, depart, say, bin, la · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cæsar, Mossa, hab er wision), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:14:87
# text = As I was about to depart, Cæsar said: “Mossa, Uncle Jupter bin hab er wision las night.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Cæsar	Cæsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Mossa	Mossa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	Jupter	Jupter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	bin	bin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wision	wision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	las	la	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cæsar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bin** *in a quote* | present | Mossa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **la** *in a quote* | present | hab er wision |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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